Suggestion for Contacts Database.

[seedubya]

I have a customer who requires a shared contacts database for use between 4 or 5 machines. I'm looking for something free or low cost as they are a charity. They currently use a shared spreadsheet but keep running into problems.

Suggestions welcome

 

[tartis]

Do they need more than one person to have access to the data, and make chages at the same time?

 

[seedubya]

As far as a fully fledged CRM goes, vTiger is utterly brilliant as is SugarCRM. I support vTiger because they're fully FLOSS as opposed to the weak-kneed version that Sugar subscribes to. However vTiger is complete overkill for my client. They only need to track names and addresses and add and edit them.

@tartis - occaisonally they do but not very often only a few times per day.

What I'd like is something that I can run on a local web server that just does contacts.

 

[bagellad]

Whip up something basic in access?

 

[zchehi]

I agree

just use access on a shared drive.

 

[Jager]

I suggest OpenContacts. It's free and I believe it works across a LAN.

 

[seedubya]

Access will then be required on each machine when they are now just using word and excel. Bit too much of an outlay really.

Jager, I'll check that out thanks.

 

[thecoldone06]

Depending on your web skills, you could come up with a simple contacts management web application using php and MySQL that will allow them to add/delete/modify their contacts.